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Plot summary
Joli Mercer's test flight ends when his plane malfunctions near a South Pacific island, where a giant spider attacks him. Ten months later, his sister Loren is hired as the pilot of a medical expedition. Dr. Samuel Leon and his assistant Susana Gabriel organize the trip after a native from the island dies of an unknown virus. She agrees to fly them, hoping to learn what happened to her brother. Lev Valentine leads the group, which includes soldiers Bear and Reyes, the arachnologist Henry Capri, and Toe Boy, a native guide. When the plane fails over the island, they set down on the beach, stranded with no way back.
Cast
- Rocqueford Allenas Bear
- Robert Vicencioas Toe Boy (as Robert Gabriel Vicencio)
- Héctor Chiquínas Native 1
- Conejo Wilsonas Native 2
- Fausto Gualsaquias Native 3
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Arachnid (2001)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- Sholder said the editor had never cut a horror film before, and when he came back to Barcelona to look at the first cut he found "a giant spider movie without a giant spider".
- The giant spider needed six or eight professional puppeteers on top of the two operators sent with it, one for each leg plus the mouth and the electronics, but the production got six university students with no experience at all, who had about a day to work out who was moving what.
- Sholder was set to direct a 12 million dollar action film with Steven Seagal, and he kept the Arachnid producers waiting in the hope of a green light for it, until they told him it was yes or no right now. The Seagal project fell apart.
- Brian Yuzna contacted Robert Kurtzman and Tobe Hooper about directing the film, but producer Julio Fernández suggested Jack Sholder after watching The Hidden.
